leadership

A week ago I was walking through the Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda.

Somewhere between the photographs of the children that were being hacked to death while we were celebrating our Freedom in 1994, and a display of the weapons neighbours had used on each other, I couldn’t help but think of how lucky we were.

Many years ago two struggle figures heads were flying over Mthatha on their way to visit Madiba. One, a Dr Motlana looks out of the window as the plane comes in for landing and seeing the dire conditions of the locals asks, almost rhetorically “what can such poverty produce?”

I visited Congo-Brazzaville when I was eight-year-old. It was an intriguing experience. I was with a group of pioneers all my peers. Despite our tender ages we were considered the first ‘South African delegation’ they had ever hosted.